The Planets (1999)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 8 episodes
- Rated
- TV-G
- Rating
- 8.1 of 10 from 24 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This BBC documentary series explains the planets of our solar system and how they formed. It uses old film footage from American and Russian space missions along with computer animations. Experts and space explorers talk about the discovery of planets.
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What happens
The Planets is a documentary miniseries produced by the BBC and A&E and released in 1999. The series was remastered in 2004. It documents the Solar System and its nature, formation, and discovery by humans during the Space Age. The series of eight episodes includes a substantial amount of archival footage from both the United States and Soviet space programs. It also depicts the Solar System through computer graphics. There were a total of eight episodes produced for the series. The series featured appearances from famous pioneering space scientists and explorers, and was narrated by Samuel West in the original 1999 edition, and Mark Halliley in the 2004 remastered edition. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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